SAN ANTONIO – The ACU Wildcats are back on the road this Saturday to take on Incarnate Word in a Southland Conference contest at Benson Stadium. The game is scheduled for a 6 p.m. kickoff and can be seen on TV on ESPN College Extra, online at ESPN3 and heard locally on 98.1 FM.
The Wildcats are 1-3 overall and 1-1 in league play after dropping a 20-10 decision to Stephen F. Austin last Saturday in the second of two straight games to open Anthony Field at Wildcat Stadium. The Wildcats won the first game played there, 24-3, vs. Houston Baptist on Sept. 16, but never found any rhythm last week against the Lumberjacks.
Incarnate Word is 0-3 overall and 0-1 in league play, but enjoyed a bye week last week after a tough 37-31 loss to SFA on Sept. 16. The Cardinals led 31-21 in the fourth quarter before SFA rallied to tie the game and then win it 37-31 on a 70-yard interception return for a touchdown on the game's final play.
The Wildcats are winless on the road for the last two-plus seasons (0-6 in 2015, 0-6 in 2016 and 0-2 in 2017) and carry a 14-game road losing streak into Saturday's game at Incarnate Word. ACU's last road win was a 37-35 win over then-No. 24 Stephen F. Austin on Nov. 15, 2014.
Quick-Hitters
• The ACU defense gave up just 20 points last Saturday in a 20-10 loss to Stephen F. Austin, the second straight week it has given up 20 points or less in a game. The last time the Wildcats did that was during the 2013 season when they beat Houston Baptist (69-122 on Oct. 12) and Incarnate Word Word (40-6 on Oct. 19) in back-to-back weeks.
• The last time the Wildcats allowed 20 points or less in three straight games was the end of the 2012 season when they beat Texas A&M-Commerce (24-17 on Oct. 27), West Alabama (22-16 in overtime on Nov. 3) and Incarnate Word (24-12 on Nov. 10) to end the season.
Moving up the QB Charts
• ACU QB
Dallas Sealey is 10th in ACU history in total offense wtih 4,953 yards, passing Colby Freeman (4,458 yards from 2001-03) for 10th on the all-time list. He has partaken in 868 career plays, which is the eighth-most among the players in the top 10 in career total offense.
• Sealey is the first QB in ACU history to throw for 4,000 yards and rush for at least 400 career yards (4,290 passing yards and 475 career rushing yards).
• Sealey is currently 11th on ACU's career passing list with those 4,484 yards, leaving him 16 yards from passing Stan Stephens (4,484 yards from 1987-89) for 10th on the all-time list.
• His 689 attempts are the ninth-best total in ACU history, just ahead of Jim Reese (679 attempts from 1973-76). ... He's eighth on the all-time completions list with 428, one behind
Parker McKenzie (429 from 2013-16) for seventh on the list.
Record-Seeker
• ACU MLB
Sam Denmark –playing with a bad elbow – had his best game of the season last week against Stephen F. Austin, finishing with 13 total tackles (eight solo), giving him a double-digit tackle total in 17 of 37 career games and his first of the 2017 season.
• Denmark now has 348 career tackles, leaving him 41 tackles shy of overtaking Ryan Boozer (388 tackles from 1998-2001) atop the Wildcats' career tackles chart.
• ACU senior RB
De'Andre Brown – who against Houston Baptist became the 10th player in ACU history to rush for 2,000 career yards –has 2,013 career yards, leaving him 46 yards short 46 yards short of passing Charcandrick West (2,058 yards from 2010-13) for 10th on ACU's all-time rushing list.
• Brown also has 2,885 career all-purpose yards, which is good for 13th on ACU's all-time list. He is 113 yards from overtaking Gerald Todd (2,997 all-purpose yards from 1985-88) for 12th on the list.
Special Teams Notes
• Senior placekicker
Nik Grau is 3 for 6 on field goals this season to give him 40 for his career, which is fourth in ACU history behind Morgan Lineberry (50 from 2009-12), Eben Nelson (43 from 2001-04) and Matt Adams (42 from 2005-08).
• Grau is 7 for 7 on PATs this season to make him 131 for 137 in his career, which is good for third overall in ACU history behind Adams (213 of 222) and Lineberry (140 of 154).
• Grau's 251 career kicking points are third in ACU history behind Adams (339) and Lineberry (290), and they are fifth overall in ACU history behind RB Bernard Scott (438 points from 2007-08), RB Wilbert Montgomery (422 from 1973-76), Adams and Lineberry.
• Laryea is fourth in the league in punting average at 41.2 yards per punt, 5.9 yards behind league-leading Joe Zema of Incarnate Word, who is averaging an astounding 47.1 yards per punt on 23 punts with a long punt of 75 yards.
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